Art Tour with Alin Daghestani

The Berlin Monastery Ruins invite visitors to a public guided tour of the historic monument on every third Thursday of the month from May to September. Together with Alin Daghestani, Program Coordinator and Curatorial Assistant at the Monastery Ruins, participants will gain insights into the history of the former Franciscan monastery as well as the site-specific contemporary artworks currently on view. Following the tour, there will be an opportunity for discussion and exchange.

This tour focuses on the site-specific installation BEHOLD GOD IN ALL THAT EXISTS IN HIS NAME by Nazanin Noori, created especially for the Berlin Monastery Ruins. The work relates the historic space of the former sacred building to questions of religious belonging, social power structures, public perception, and diverse conceptions of the divine.

The installation consists of four illuminated taxiway guidance signs arranged in front of the surviving funerary monuments to form a twelve-metre-long light sculpture. Across their signal-orange surfaces appears the phrase: “BEHOLD GOD IN ALL THAT EXISTS IN HIS NAME.” Borrowed from aviation technology, the signs are removed from their functional context and placed within a new spatial and conceptual framework. Positioned between sacred architecture and technical light infrastructure, the work creates a field of tension between religious order, collective identity, and contemporary forms of social orientation.

At the same time, the installation references pantheistic ideas in which the divine is understood as an immanent presence within all things. The phrase “IN HIS NAME” remains deliberately ambiguous, drawing attention to historical and contemporary mechanisms of religious language that have been used to justify exclusion, hierarchy, and violence. The work thus moves between spirituality, political history, and the fragility of social systems of order.

On 16 July, artist Nazanin Noori will join the tour and speak about the site-specific installation BEHOLD GOD IN ALL THAT EXISTS IN HIS NAME at the Berlin Monastery Ruins.

Further dates: 16 July, 27 August (rescheduled from 20 August), and 17 September 2026

Free admission, no registration required.

Biography of the Artist Nazanin Noori

Nazanin Noori lives and works in Berlin. Her interdisciplinary practice encompasses installation, sound art, composition, live and lecture performance, directing, and writing. Through her work, she explores the convergence of sound, space, sculpture, and postdramatic poetry, engaging with both religious and media power structures. Central to her practice is the question of how experiences of spirituality, protest, and collective truth are appropriated, instrumentalized, or distorted. Her hypno-acoustic compositions have shaped a distinctive sonic aesthetic for which she coined the term Ambient Hardcore.

Noori’s artistic practice began in 2016 with compositions for theatre and art films. Her debut album, FARCE, was released on the label enmossed. Her 54-minute sound work HAAL was first presented in 2021 as part of the exhibition The Sun Machine Is Coming Down at the ICC, organized by the Berlin Festival, and was subsequently broadcast by Deutschlandfunk Kultur.

Her work has been presented at numerous galleries and institutions, including Akademie der Künste Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Eye Filmmuseum, and as part of the Transmediale. Her performances have been featured at venues including the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Villa Massimo, Berghain, Schirn Kunsthalle, Schauspielhaus Zürich, La Gaîté Lyrique, the CTM Festival, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts.

Nazanin Noori has held artist residencies at the Young Academy of Arts, Rupert, and Callie’s. Her theatre works have been staged at the Maxim Gorki Theater, the Deutsches Theater Berlin, and the Berliner Ensemble. Her sound works and radio scenarios have been presented by various international broadcasters, including Mutant Radio, Deep House Tehran, and Refuge Worldwide, where she has held an ongoing residency since 2021.

In 2026, Nazanin Noori was awarded the ars viva Prize for visual arts.